Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 25
Even the cry of the wolves was unheeded by the mice within the lighted buffalo skull.
Who acts: cry, wolves · What happens: be, light, cry
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Dance in a Buffalo Skull. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cry, wolves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:944): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 cry | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cry | det |
| 3 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unheeded | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wolves | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wolves | det |
| 6 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cry | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unheeded | cop |
| 8 | unheeded | unheeded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 mice | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mice | det |
| 11 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 unheeded | obl |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 skull | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skull | det |
| 14 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 skull | amod |
| 15 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skull | compound |
| 16 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mice | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 unheeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cry of the wolves | by the mice within the lighted buffalo skull; unheeded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | light | participle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cry | the wolves | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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